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Nature Attractions In Cape Breton Island

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Cape Breton Island is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.The 10,311 km2 island accounts for 18.7% of Nova Scotia's total area. Although the island is physically separated from the Nova Scotia peninsula by the Strait of Canso, the 1,385 m long rock-fill Canso Causeway connects it to mainland Nova Scotia. The island is east-northeast of the mainland with its northern and western coasts fronting on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; its western coast also forms the eastern limits of the Northumberland Strait. The eastern and southern coasts front the Atlantic Ocean; its eastern coast also forms the we...
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  • 1. Cape Breton Highlands National Park Ingonish
    Cape Breton Highlands National Park is a Canadian national park located on northern Cape Breton Island in the province of Nova Scotia. One-third of the Cabot Trail passes through the park featuring spectacular ocean and mountain views. The park is well known for its steep cliffs and deep river canyons that carve into a forested plateau bordering the Atlantic Ocean. The park was the first national park in the Atlantic provinces of Canada and covers an area of 948 square kilometres . It is one of 42 in Canada's system of national parks. At the western entrance of the park is the Acadian village of Chéticamp on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and a park information centre. On the eastern side of the park are campsites as well as beaches at Ingonish on the Atlantic Ocean. In between are mountains,...
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  • 3. Ingonish Beach Ingonish
    Ingonish is a Canadian rural community in northeastern Victoria County, Nova Scotia. Located along the northeast coast of Cape Breton Island, Ingonish is situated on the Cabot Trail approximately 60 kilometres from the shire town of Baddeck. Ingonish consists of five communities: Ingonish Ferry Ingonish Harbour Ingonish Beach Ingonish Centre North IngonishIngonish lies at the eastern entrance to Cape Breton Highlands National Park. The regional economy is tied to the seasonal tourism and fishing industries. The community is in the federal electoral district of Sydney—Victoria. Ingonish was one of the first areas settled on Cape Breton Island, and is home to the Keltic Lodge resort, downhill skiing at Cape Smokey, and a public golf course, the Highlands Links.
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  • 10. Cheticamp Island Beach Cheticamp
    Chéticamp is a fishing village on the Cabot Trail on the west coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. Having a number of public facilities it performs a service function for the northernmost part of Inverness County. The community has almost 4,000 residents, a large majority of whom are Acadians and speak French natively. Together with its smaller neighbour, Saint-Joseph-du-Moine, Chéticamp makes up the largest Francophone enclave on Cape Breton Island. The 2006 population was 3,039 people.
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  • 14. Dominion Beach Provincial Park Dominion
    Canada Day is the national day of Canada. A federal statutory holiday, it celebrates the anniversary of July 1, 1867, the effective date of the Constitution Act, 1867 , which united the three separate colonies of the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into a single Dominion within the British Empire called Canada. Originally called Dominion Day , the holiday was renamed in 1982, the year the Canada Act was passed. Canada Day celebrations take place throughout the country, as well as in various locations around the world, attended by Canadians living abroad.
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